Latch fastener for bags



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H. TUECKMANTEL LATCH FASTENER FOR BAGS Filed April 5, 1923 INVENTOR A TTORNE Y Patented Nov. 25, 1924. I b51651! stares rarer orFicE.

HUGO TUECKMANTEL, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO THE '1 & L CO. INC., NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

LATCH FASTENER FOR, BAGS.

Application filed April 5, 1923. Serial No. 629,998.

To all whom it may concern: fastener casing assembled, the bottom plate Be it known that I, HUGO TUECKMANTEL, being removed to show the construction. a citizen of the United States, residing at A conventional type of hand bag is indi- Newark, in the county of Essex and State cated in the drawing, having sides and 5 of New Jersey, have invented new and use- 11 stitched or otherwise secured to frame ful Improvements in Latch Fasteners for coverings 12 and 13, completely enveloping Bags, of which the following is a specificathe frame members lt and 15, which, as tion. shown, are angular in cross section and, as This invention relates to improvements will be understood, extend in parallel along 10 in fasteners for hand bags, v'alises and like the length of the bag opening and thence structures having hinged frames and more downwardly at the sides, where they are particularly to types of fasteners used to engaged by hinges, not shown. engage the frames near their ends along their The frame member 14 is usually considstraight outer edges. erably larger than its mate and arranged to 15 One of the objects of the invention is to overlie the same when the bag is closed, as provide an unusually strong and secure indicated in Figs. 1 and 3, but it is to be unfastener composed of a pivoted latch bolt derstood that the frame formation is immamember on one frame element and a closed terial with respect to the invention. loop or eye receptive of the bolt fixed on The fastener consists of an oblong rec- 20 the mating frame element. tangular casing composed of a top plate 16,

Another purpose is to produce an actuatside walls 17, which may be at right angles or ing member for the bolt that is readily flaring outward as preferred, and corremanipulated and which clearly and unmissponding end walls 18. takably indicates the position of the locking Extending from the lower edges of the 25 bolt. end walls are lugs 19, adapted to be in- A further aim is in the provision of means turned, as at 20, after passing through for normally maintaining the bolt in either openings in abottom plate 21 and the frame of its extreme positions, as fully retracted member 14; together with its covering, thus or positively locked. clamping the casing firmly and securely to 30 Still further objects are to provide a bag the frame and incidentally the plate 21 to the fastener of the type described exceptionally bottom of the casing, said plate extending neat in appearance, that occupies less than slightly beyond the casing sides in all dithe usual space and which is simple and inrections. expensive in construction. Also connecting between the top plate 16 35 These and analogous aims are attained and bottom plate 21 is a post 22 positioned by the novel construction and combination near one end of the casing and solidly of parts hereafter described and illustrated riveted in the plates. in the annexed drawing forming part of this At the opposite end of the case, adjacent disclosure, and in which 2- the top plate 16, is a transverse pin 23 set 40 Figure 1 is a perspective view of an em rigidly in the side walls and acting as a bodiment of the invention illustrating its hinge member with respect to a perforate application to a conventional type of travellug 2 1, fixed in the lower side of a cover ling plate 25 adapted to rest over the top plate Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view 16 of the casing and extend uniformly out- 45 of the same, showing-the parts as in a closed ward on all sides beyond it, the lug 24 enposition by full lines and in an open positering the casing through a central slot in tion by broken lines. the top plate and adjacent end wall and be- Figure 3 1s a transverse sectional view mg so shaped as to fit neatly therein, and be showing the fastener as closed. v laterally gulded.

Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of the Fixed rigidly in the cover plate 25 is a bar 26, curved to a radius on both edges from the axis of the pin 23, and guided by slots 27 and 28 formed respectively in the top and bottom plates 16 and 21, the bar being adapted to extend through slots 29 in the bag frame to a point within the bag.

At the end of the bar 26, on its outer edge I is a lug 3O suited to pass through the slot 29 in the frame but engage the plate 21, the slot 28 of which is of insufficient length to permit its passage.

Formed in the convex edge of the bar are two notches 31 and 32, respectively near its rounded free end 3% and plate 25.

A slide composed of two plates 35, connected rigidlyby a rod 36, is loosely contained in the casing and drawn towards the bar 26 by means of a spring 37 connected at its ends with the plates and bent to present a central bight 38 passed around the post 22. 1

A roller 39 is revolubly mounted on the rod 36 and adapted to enter either of the notches 31 or 32, thus holding the cover plate 25 and bar 26 in either a raised or lowered position, but permitting movement thereof upon the application of moderate force. I

Firmly fixed to the lower vertical portion of the frame member 15 is an outstanding plate arm 40 having a slot 41, which, upon closing the frame members, registers with the path of the bar 26 so that the bar enters the slot as the cover plate is moved down, effectually locking the frame memhere from separation.

When it is desired to open the bag the plate 25 is readily raised upon its hinge pin 23 by grasping the overhanging edge and applying enough force to press the roller 36 out of the notch 32, allowing the roller to travel along the curved edge of the bar until it enters the notch 31, at which time the bar 26 will be out of engagement with the keeper plate 40 and permit the bag to open.

From the foregoing it will be seen that a simple device for'this purpose has been disclosed in the preferred form of its embodiment, but it is not desired to restrict the details of the exact construction shown, it beingobvious that changes, not involving the exercise of invention, may be made with out conflicting with the scope of the; appended claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:-

1. A bag frame fastener comprising a casing fixed on one of the frame members, a keeper on the other member, a level cover plate hinged at one end to said casing, a bar operable transversely through said casing engageable in said keeper, said bar be ing fixed in said plate, and means for re taining said bar in either of its extreme positions said retaining means yielding upon application of force to said cover plate.

2. A bag frame fastener comprising a casing fixed on one of the frame members, a keeper on the other member, a swinging bar operable transversely through said casing engageable in said keeper, a cover plate by which said bar is actuated, means for preventing over operation of said bar, and resilient means wholly within said case normally limiting the movement of said bar and cover plate said bar yielding upon forcible action of said cover.

3. A bag frame latch fastener comprising a casing fixed on one of the frame members, a latch bar movable transversely through openings in the top and bottom walls of said casingbeing guided thereby, a level plate pivoted to one end of said casing to extend marginally beyond its confines, said bar being fixed in said plate near its outer end, a spring impelled detent wholly in said casing engaging said bar, said bar having notches receptive of said detent, said detent being forced out of engagement by actuation of said plate and means carried by the other of said frame members into which said bar enters when said plate is in a .tive of said bolt.

5. A fastener for hinged frames comprising a closed elongated rectangular casing fixed on one of the frame members, said casing having slots in its top and bottom members, a cover plate hinged at one end of said casing to fold thereover, a curved bar fixed in said cover plate to extend through the mentioned slots, said bar having notches in its concave side near its ends, a detent formed at the innerxend of said bar limiting its outward movement, a spring impelled slide in said casing, a roller revoluble in said slide engageable in either of the mentioned notches whereby said cover plate is held in a fully raised or lowered position, and a closed loop receptive of the end of said bar secured to the mating member of the frame.

6. A bag frame latch fastener comprising a casing securedto one of the frame sides, a cover plate hingedly engaged at one end of said casing to extend outward beyond the upper wall thereof when closed thereover, a bottom plate rigidly secured to said other frame side receptive of said bolt when casing, said upper Wall and bottom plate the frame sides are closed and said bolt having narrow longitudinal slots, a bolt projected downwardly.

fixed in said cover plate, said bolt being This specification signed and witnessed curved to the radius of the hinge and fitted this third day of April, 1923.

to the mentioned slots, means to prevent HUGO TUECKMANTEL. the retraction of said bolt from said casing, Witnesses:

a detent engaging said bolt at the limits FREDK O. FISCHER,

of its travel, and a closed loop carried by the FERDINAND HoLL. 

